Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!wuarchive!uunet!ora!ambar From: forbes@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Jeff Forbes) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: physiological differences between male and female brains Message-ID: <1991Mar8.034313.29112@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 8 Mar 91 14:08:03 GMT References: <1991Feb22.215346.8448@aero.org> Sender: ambar@ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz) Organization: School of Chemical Sciences, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 16 Approved: ambar@ora.com In article yoda!jls@igor.rational.com (Jim Showalter) writes: >Regarding physiological differences between male/female brains, this >turns out to be largely bogus. There seemed to be some VERY minor >structural differences, but the sample size was quite small and there >has yet to be independent corroboration. According to _Evolution of the Vertebrate Brain_, the adult human female brain (taking into account body height) is on the average 200 grams less than that of the adult human male brain, using the same scaling. What does this mean? Possibly nothing more than another odd medical statistic. Jeff Forbes "....I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Edison